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Each year, Google Trends reveals Australia’s most popular news searches, giving us a fascinating insight into the national psyche.
Most of these searches often reflect the global events of a given year for example, the US election or coronavirus - which ranked 1st and 2nd on this year’s news list.
But other searches - like toilet paper and fires - tell us a lot about Australians’ priorities.
Most-searched news topics
Australia’s devastating bushfires were high on the agenda this year, with ‘Fires near me’ coming in at the third most popular news search.
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